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Restore Kentucky Voting Rights

End Kentucky's lifetime felony disenfranchisement and automatically restore voting rights on release from a sentence. More than 160,000 Kentuckians who finished their time still cannot register, the highest rate of any state outside a handful of southern holdouts.

Supporting bill

KY SB225AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights.

Introduced · updated 1 year ago

Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.

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